More Hope and Change… Angry Afghan Mob Torches Effigy of Obama
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, September 14, 2012, 11:22 PM
Now you see him…
(AP)
Now you don’t…
(AP)
How’s that hopey-changey stuff treating you?
Angry Afghans torched an effigy of President Obama today in Nangarhar Province.
The AFP reported, via Free Republic:
Hundreds of Afghan protesters took to the streets on Friday, setting fire to an effigy of US President Barack Obama and demanding the death of a film-maker who they say insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
The demonstration in Nangarhar province, which borders Kabul to the west and Pakistan to the east, saw clerics in the Shinwari tribe call for a $100,000 bounty on the head of the producer of the film, “Innocence of Muslims”.
An Obama effigy was also torched, said Zaher Ali, deputy chief of Ghanikhail district’s council of clerics, but the protest passed off peacefully and fears about demonstrations in the capital Kabul were not realised.
“Death to America”, and “death to the enemies of Islam”, shouted the crowd, according to an AFP photographer, in what are fairly routine chants at anti-US protests in Afghanistan.
The low-budget movie, in which actors have strong US accents, portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.
It pokes fun at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of paedophilia and homosexuality, while showing him sleeping with women, talking about killing children and referring to a donkey as “the first Muslim animal”.
Afghanistan is a devout Muslim country where anything seen as insulting to Islam is taken very seriously, often with a violent response.
Riots killed around 40 people earlier this year after US troops burnt copies of the Koran on a military base.
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Ace commented:
I feel like I’m back in 1979.
Jawknee commented:
Racist.
J-Ho commented:
But, but, but………….I thought the “protests” were just about the video??? I thought they weren’t directed toward the U.S.??? Jay Carney said so, so it must be true! I guess those people didn’t hear what Carney said.
Martin commented:
VIDEO : Afghans burning the effigy of O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFYs1cNKqs
Granny commented:
So much for “smart diplomacy” and reset buttons.
AuntieMadder commented:
Hundreds of Afghan protesters took to the streets…demanding the death of a film-maker who they say insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
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“Death to America”, and “death to the enemies of Islam”, shouted the crowd, according to an AFP photographer, in what are fairly routine chants at anti-US protests in Afghanistan.
The…movie… portrays Muslims as…gratuitously violent.
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Afghanistan is a devout Muslim country where anything seen as insulting to Islam is taken very seriously, often with a violent response.
Riots killed around 40 people earlier this year after US troops burnt copies of the Koran on a military base.
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“It pokes fun at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of paedophilia and homosexuality, while showing him sleeping with women, talking about killing children and referring to a donkey as ‘the first Muslim animal’.”
“According to the Lebanese news organization Tayyar.org, citing AFP news sources, U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens…was reportedly raped before being murdered. A google translation of the report says.
A news report made by the Libyan Free Press is also reporting that Ambassador Stevens was sodomized before he was killed…”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/horror-lebanese-reports-us-ambassador-raped-before-his-murder/
Would you call this hypocrisy? …irony? Did the AFP reporter fail to notice it just as the Muslims, themselves, seem to do? Un-f*****g-believable…
Texas_Treeroach commented:
If Obama had a son made out of straw, he’d look like that.
(The pole looks a bit uncomfortable … but ya’ just never know.)
Granny commented:
So, let me get this straight . . . all of this gratuitous violance to persons and property are because someone made a movie showing islam as gratuitously violent?
Flintstone F. commented:
Jay Carney: Clearly these attacks are aimed at Tiger Woods.
jorgen commented:
They shouldn’t have filled the clothes with straw. Obama is an empty suit.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Angry Afghan Mob Torches Effigy of Obama
Haw haw haw.
Opaobie commented:
Somebody is missing out on a small fortune by not manufacturing exploding Obama effigies. You’d think the Chinese would want in on that market…maybe lots of neat “Rainbow Coalition” multi-cultural-colored smoke streamers, some rockets flying out his A$$, I mean, c’mon….
Liz commented:
Who made the video, Valerie Jarrett? This is so idiotic, I’m embarrassed to be witnessing the gross incompetence and bizarre stratagems of this administration.
Opaobie commented:
Wow! Republicans could use these images along with the Obama fundraising slogan “Fired up and Ready” to show exactly what they mean by that phrase.
Martin commented:
BREAKING NEWS – AUSTRALIA Police use tear gas on Muslim protesters in Sydney at the US consulate
http://www.news.com.au/national/police-use-tear-gas-on-protesters-in-sydney-at-the-us-consulate/story-fndo4bst-1226474744811
Michael commented:
Now why would they burn oBama in effigy. Don’t they know he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
Maybe if the idiots from the Norwegian Nobel Committee give him another one, all this would go away.
Limousine Barry commented:
What? They are burning me in effigy!
I thought they were my friends!
I have been to Pakistan. I have been to mosques. I have prayed to Allah and put my butt in the air. I even let them give me a wedgie. And, now this!
I must really be Chief suckling of Barney Frank’s school of political patronage by blowing. My campaign sucks. My policies of bowing and boot-licking really suck.
I have mucked-up America. I have let our embassies burn. I have let our Ambassadors get slaughtered. I have mucked-up the Middle East. I really suck.
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